In an effort to slow the already glacial pace of the iOS-friendly HTML5 standard, the W3C is telling developers to hold off on deploying the technology in their web sites due to lack of interoperability in certain areas.

“The problem we’re facing right now is there is already a lot of excitement for HTML5, but it’s a little too early to deploy it because we’re running into interoperability issues,” including differences between video on devices, said the official, Philippe Le Hegaret, W3C interaction domain leader. He is responsible for specifications like HTML and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).

For example, Apple’s Safari supports only H.264, Firefox only OGG Theora and Google’s V8, and Google supports everything. (Internet Explorer 9, currently in beta, will bring its own unique set of support as well).

Typically the way things have moved at all in the browser space is innovation and implementation by each individual bowser maker, then standards have followed as web developers have built sites and usage has demanded it.

Apple, Google, probably Microsoft won’t slow down with HTML5, so no worries there, but it’s possible they’ll have to drag the W3C forward with them, kicking and screaming as they do.

iPhone, iPad, and other mobile devices won’t be waiting for them.

[Infoworld, Thanks Antony for sending this in]

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You know the drill, come 6pm PT, 9pm ET, 2am BST, we’ll be live over at:

http://live.tipb.com/live/

Be there, and be ready to chat. We want to hear from you.

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None other than the Wall Street Journal, and the notoriously well-informed Yukari Iwatani Kane, is saying Apple will have a Verizon-compatible iPhone ready by the end of 2010, which means if a deal can be worked out, Verizon could be carrying it by early 2011 (as numerous previous rumors have suggested).

The new iPhone would be similar in design to the iPhone 4 currently sold by AT&T Inc. but would be based on an alternative wireless technology called CDMA used by Verizon, these people said. The phone, for which Qualcomm Inc. is providing a key chip, is expected to be released in the first quarter of next year, according to the same people.

Kane also says “people briefed on the matter” reveal Apple is working on a new form factor for iPhone 5, which would almost certainly be revealed at WWDC 2011 in June. Whether or not this is a new antenna design isn’t said, but it isn’t hard to imagine either.

Neither Apple nor Verizon would comment, so we’ll leave that to you…

UPDATE: Lowell McAdam, Verizon's President and COO commented, or rather no-commented during the CTIA show:

"This is one of those things that rolls out every few weeks whether there's a basis for it or not," he said when asked to comment on the story. "I can't give you any insights. But I think Apple is the one that has to make that announcement."

He reiterated what he said is his common response to questions about the iPhone. "What I've always said is I expect at some point in time our business interests are going to align. I think things like LTE are another great reason why they'd want a device or tablet on that network. But I don't have anything to say today about timing."

[WSJ, Macworld]

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Interesting visualization of smartphone market-share vs profit-share and how it’s changed from 2007 to 2010. Also interesting how survey results use terms like Android vs. iPhone while the actual business metrics always seem to break down by manufacturer (notice it’s Apple, not iPhone or iOS above, and no Android is mentioned, though Moto, Sammy, et al are front and center).

What I’m curious about is whether consumers think they’re buying an iPhone or iPhone, an Android phone or a Motorola or HTC phone, or an AT&T or Verizon phone? For Apple it doesn’t matter much in the US (or internationally with unlocked models now available pretty much everywhere), but for Google and Microsoft (when Windows Phone 7 launches), what phone do mainstream consumers think they have? Do they know a Droid Eris is an HTC Hero and that’s why they bought it or do they just know it’s on Verizon and does apps?

For developers, manufacturer certainly isn’t anywhere nearly as important as platform (iOS vs. Android) because, with a few exceptions to insure compatibility between devices, they’re targeting OS not hardware. In that case, however, iPhone isn’t a device unto itself because iOS apps also work on the extremely popular iPod touch and iPad, meaning iOS smartphone market share (i.e. iPhone) isn’t the whole story.

That I’ve spent this whole post focusing on Google and their partners and Apple is also strangely consistent with the directions of them arrows on that chart. With Windows Phone 7 launching this month, new webOS 2.0 hardware next year, and BlackBerry on a hot new QNX OS sometime in the future could make it change again by 2012, which is great for consumers.

(And Microsoft, it’s still not to late to launch as Xphone with a Halo Special Edition right on the shelf at AT&T across from iPhone. Really.)

See, we shouldn’t be “fans” of a manufacturer or platform — though we can certainly find one or the other better suited to our current needs — and fight over them. Manufacturers and platform makers should be “fans” of users and fight over us by making the best, least crippled, most advanced, powerful, and delightful products they can, with great services and killer customer support.

Because momentum — and money — will go with those arrows.

[asymco, thanks everyone who sent this in!]

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The Seidio Inno Dock Jr. for iPhone 4 is just the dock you have been waiting for. Or it is if, like me, you have grumbled and cursed multiple times when having to remove my favorite Case-Mate Chrome case in order to change my iPhone. What makes the Seidio Inno Dock Jr. so much better?

Read on after the break to find out!

I have tried the Seidio Inno Dock Jr. with 4 different cases and have yet to find a case that gives it problems. As long as the case has an opening for the 30-pin slot then it should fit comfortably in the cradle without the need to remove the case. The reason it’s so compatible is that it’s built so that the 30 pin dock plug is raised above the docking platform. It’s also hinged so that it can move back and forth and that means there’s almost no way the base can obstruct the connector.

The Dock is also quite small and lightweight so it does not take up much space on your desk, shelf, or table. It comes with a USB cable but not an AC adapter so if you want to plug it into a wall outlet instead of a computer you will need to use the adaptor that came from your iPhone 4 (or, if you’re already using that elsewhere, get an extra one from the TiPb store).

If you hate having to remove your case each time you charge your iPhone 4, pick up the Seidio Inno Dock Jr. Since I have gotten it I have been using it daily and am so happy with it. It is pretty inexpensive also, so a good gift for a friend. Save your case and sanity, pick one up from the TiPb iPhone 4 accessory store today!

Pros

• No need to remove your case when charging phone
• Phone faces out while charging
• Small and lightweight
• Inexpensive

Cons

• Does not come with an AC Adapter
• iPhone can wiggle a bit while in cradle

Rating

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Steve Jobs attended a the ceremony to honor the signing of California SB 1395, a bill that simplifies organ donation status and creates the nation’s first kidney donor registry. Steve Jobs, who had liver transplant last year while on leave of absence from Apple, has been a strong proponent for better donor support ever since.

Along with Governor Schwarzenegger, Jobs had this to say:

“There were not enough livers in California to go around. I was advised by my Stanford doctors to enroll on a list at a Memphis hospital, because it was more favorable to get a liver there.

“I was fortunate,” he said because he had the ability to fly cross country in the four-hour window needed to transplant a healthy organ. “Last year, 400 other Californians died waiting. I could have died.”

It’s an interesting glimpse at the Steve Jobs beyond Apple, and an admirable bit of work by California.

[Scopeblog via TUAW]

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Sony’s Google TV remote (left) as compared to Apple TV’s remote (right) help make manifest just how different these products will be, and they’re just two of the competitors poised to battle it out for next generation rights to your living room this holiday season.

Since Google’s UI will be more search based and Apple’s is more browsing based, is it right tool for right job? Or will we all be using our Android and iOS devices to control our fancy TV boxes anyway, so who cares what default hardware remote ships in the box?

More buttons than a NASA console or fewer than a classic iPod, which do you prefer?

[Engadget]

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iPad showed up on the hit CBS show NCIS tonight, helping out with the forensics work, though sporting a red hot skin case rather than the traditional lab jacket.

NCIS has a long history of using iPhones going back to the original, and so many shows have iPhones these days there’s no way we can post them all, but iPad sightings have been far less common to date.

Is this a sign that’s about to change? Has the TV iPad onslaught begun?

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